Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
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"Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" is a pop song by Jimmy Osmond
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Written by Christopher Kingsley (somehow credited as Christopher Dowden on the U.K. release) and produced by Mike Curb
and Perry Botkin Jr, "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
" was a UK number one single for Jimmy Osmond. Riding high on the popularity of The Osmonds
, Jimmy (the youngest sibling) had a massive hit with the song, in the process becoming the youngest person to ever reach number one on the UK singles chart aged 9 years 8 months.
A UK number one for five weeks in December 1972, it was the Christmas number one that year, eventually selling 1,000,000 copies. It also reached #2 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and #38 on the Billboard Hot 100. Kingsley's 1969 version was an unsuccessful single, played by then-popular MOR station KMPC, Los Angeles.
Jimmy Osmond
James Arthur "Jimmy" Osmond is an American singer, actor, and businessman.-Biography:Jimmy Osmond is the youngest of his siblings and an occasional member of their musical group, The Osmonds. He is the ninth and last child of George and Olive Osmond, and his siblings are Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne,...
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Written by Christopher Kingsley (somehow credited as Christopher Dowden on the U.K. release) and produced by Mike Curb
Mike Curb
Michael Curb is an American musician, record company executive, NASCAR and IRL race car owner. A Republican, he served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 under Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr...
and Perry Botkin Jr, "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
" was a UK number one single for Jimmy Osmond. Riding high on the popularity of The Osmonds
The Osmonds
The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...
, Jimmy (the youngest sibling) had a massive hit with the song, in the process becoming the youngest person to ever reach number one on the UK singles chart aged 9 years 8 months.
A UK number one for five weeks in December 1972, it was the Christmas number one that year, eventually selling 1,000,000 copies. It also reached #2 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and #38 on the Billboard Hot 100. Kingsley's 1969 version was an unsuccessful single, played by then-popular MOR station KMPC, Los Angeles.